CVE-2016-0898 in MySQL for PCF Tiles

Summary

MySQL for PCF tiles 1.7.x before 1.7.10 were discovered to log the AWS access key in plaintext. These credentials were logged to the Service Backup component logs, and not the system log, thus were not exposed outside the Service Backup VM.

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• Reservation: 12/17/2015
• Disclosure: 03/29/2018
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-115216 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-532 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 9.1
• EPSS: 0.00294
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-0898
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0898
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2016-0898/